John Morehouse

Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to boost memory or I/O, you had to scale the whole instance, paying for extra CPU you might not need—and hoping the upgrade fixed the bottleneck. It worked but wasn’t elegant and could be slow or awkward. Scaling sometimes took hours when time was of the essence.

[Blog] Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS | John Morehouse #azuresql #sqlmi #managedinstance #azure

SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine. This version focuses on AI features and better performance, aiming to meet the needs of today’s applications, from critical business systems to cloud-connected setups. Finally: New Developer Editions For years, Microsoft received feedback about a major gap in its licensing. The Developer edition always matched the Enterprise edition, letting developers use all features for free.

[Blog} SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition - One size fits all | John Morehouse #sqlserver #sql2025 #standarddeveloper #enterprisedeveloper

Merry Christmas Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading today, here it is nonetheless. I wish you and your family as many blessing as possible and all the good tidings during this holiday seasons.   The year 2026 is almost upon us so I hope that 2025 was good for you & family, and I look forward to seeing what the new year brings. May the holidays bring you peace and joy!

[Blog] Merry Christmas | John Morehouse #merryxmas #happyholidays

Clear sign that everybody should just take the day and try again tomorrow.

@joeydantoni.com mentioned something earlier to me regarding PIM being down/not functioning correctly.

Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets When organizations migrate workloads to Azure, the focus is usually on architecture, performance, and security. Cost management should be part of that conversation—but in practice, it’s often treated as an afterthought. One of the most overlooked and underutilized tools in Azure is Budgets, despite the fact that it can prevent unpleasant billing surprises with minimal effort. The Problem: “Surprise!! Please pay your bill.”

[Blog] Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets | John Morehouse #Azure #Budgets #Goverance #SaveMeTheMoney

Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that if you do not place it into an availability zone at deployment time, you've traditionally had to rebuild it later.   That usually meant starting from scratch or detaching the disks, creating a new VM, and reattaching them.  Neither option is not horribly impactful, but both can be inconvenient and time-consuming.

Blog | Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones | John Morehouse #Azure #AvailabilityZones

This was a really fun video to record! If you haven't seen it, take a look and give me your thoughts on the release of SQL Server 2025!

DATE CHANGE for Data Saturday Stockholm 2026!

Because of the Stockholm Marathon, which happens on the original date, not only were hotels exorbitantly expensive, but the venue was actually not even bookable.

New date: May 9th.

Of all the problems, it's never the stuff you'd expect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don’t let the next outage take you down. Join @mrdenny.com, @sqlrus.bsky.social & @joeydantoni.com for “When the Edge Fails” webcast—strategies to survive #Cloudflare & #AzureFrontDoor failures.
📅 Dec 10 10AM PT
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#Azure #CloudComputing #ResilienceEngineering #HighAvailability #DevOps

Resistence is futile. You will be assimilated.

#BorgSlack

I haven't heard anything specific on that CU. What does query store say for the cause of the regression?

This.

Maybe. I can neither confirm nor deny this.

So sorry for the delay, but yes I'm in the process of setting this up for a client as I type. =)

SQL database in Fabric Ep. 1: Getting to know SQL database in Fabric, Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup WHEN: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 1600 GMT DESCRIPTION of TALK In this session, we explain what SQL database in Microsoft Fabric is and the benefits of leveraging a databas

🚀 Technical Session Alert! 🚀

This is the first of a six-part series on Fabric

📅 Title: SQL Database in Fabric Ep. 1: Getting to Know SQL Database in Fabric
🗓️ Wednesday, March 12, 2025
⏰ 12:00 PM (EST) / 9:00 AM (PST)
🎤 Speakers: Javier Villegas & @sqlrus.bsky.social

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Simplifying Migrations to Azure SQL Managed Instance YouTube video by John Morehouse

🚀 New Video 🚀

Check out my latest video demostrating how to perform a database migration to Azure SQL Managed Instance through backup & restore!

Check it out!

👉 youtu.be/9pESKCo2tAM

#SQLServer #AzureSQL #SQLManagedInstance #SQL

Does that mean we'd be GeekGenerals? I'm game.

Me too!!!

The Cloud Chronicles Volume 7--Hub and Spoke in Azure Networking YouTube video by Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs

Just published another episode of the Cloud Chronicles with @sqlrus.bsky.social of @dcac.com. In this episode, we talk about Hub and Spoke network design in Azure. youtu.be/cDJQ2Qar0Ag

Oh missed this, I'm sorry! Thanks so much for the feedback, I really appreciate it!!

The Cloud Chronicles Volume 2--A look at Azure Site Recovery YouTube video by Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs

Do you have a disaster recovery plan in place even for your cloud environment? Check out the latest video from Cloud Chronicles where @joeydantoni.com and I discuss Azure Site Recovery!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphn...

#AzureSiteRecovery #DR #CloudChronicles #Azure

Ooooo, that's a good topic. We'll add it to the list.

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Remember new users are coming on daily, unsure of engagement. The more posts you like and reply to, the strong the platform becomes !

I had to add bourbon to my coffee to get the google-fu engine working. And very welcome, hope that helps.

Improved Application Availability During Online Operations in SQL Server 2014 - Microsoft SQL Server Blog SQL Server 2014 introduces enhancements to two common database maintenance operations namely Partition Switching and Online Index Rebuild which greatly increases enterprise application availability by...

This old article seems to indicate that the aborted sessions would be logged in the error log (unless I'm misreading it) www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-se...

Look at the Diagnostics section

The Cloud Chronicles Part I--Azure Automation YouTube video by Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs

My colleague @sqlrus.bsky.social and I, decided during PASS Summit to start a video series, where we break down an Azure service. Join John and I at our new channel and start your Azure learning journey. In this video, we cover one of my favorite Azure services, Automation. youtu.be/eHPa3tiTeb4

I had to look up "chick grit" as I've never heard of it. Now that I know what it is it makes total sense. 😂